FONTANA>> Finishing touches are all that remains for a police station remodel that will put the city’s police department officers under one roof.

The $12 million project kicked off in 2011, but bogged down last year when the general contractor hired for the job went belly-up.

The expansion involved closing off about 33,000 square feet of a parking garage beneath the police station, at 17005 Upland Ave.

The improved police department will be dedicated at 5 p.m. on Sept. 11, as part of a remembrance ceremony for the terrorist attacks which rocked the United States 12 years ago.

Tours of the revamped facility will be offered to the public, said Police Chief Rod Jones.

“Two areas that officers really like are the locker room and the gym,” Jones said during tour.

The double-door wide lockers are designed with separate “boot drawers”, to ensure dirty boots don’t contaminate clean uniforms on hangars in main compartments.

The lockers include an electrical outlet and a lockable drawer where officers can store their sidearm.

Previous lockers housed bullet-proof vests and duty belts with their attachments, plus shoes and uniforms in space the size of a school locker, Jones said.

The locker area has been built out with many extra lockers, which will be brought into service as the city gains population and more police are hired, he said.

The weight room has tread mills and other workout machines plus a full array of free weights. The heavy weight plates for barbells have a thick exterior rubber jacket so they don’t damaged the floor if the barbell is suddenly released from an overhead position.

The police property room has been greatly expanded and includes refrigerated locked cabinets of varying sizes where evidence containing DNA can be stored. There are also “drying lockers” where evidence, like clothing soaked with blood, can be dried out so it can be placed in evidence bags and not rot, Jones said.